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Fate is like a secret friend that helps push you on into life.
Patti Smith
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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What will happen to us? I asked. There will always be us, he answered.
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I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.
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The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.
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I was always trying to pick guys up. I'd ask guys out and stuff like that. I had no pride. I was the biggest lurch at dances, waiting for the ladies' choice. I'd lunge at my prey like a baby wolf.
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If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got!
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